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> Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the CDC, said he received death threats from fellow scientists after telling CNN he thought the virus likely escaped from a lab. “I expected it from politicians. I didn’t expect it from science,” he said.

Holyshit. We have created an atmosphere of censorship and suppression to the point where noble, well meaning people have been turned into monsters.




Turns out one human isn't necessarily better than another? This emphasis on that scientists are evil in this thread astounds me.


The emphasis is that reasonable, educated and rational, self-introspective and self-critical people like Scientists can issue death threats from their wokeness just shows how bad politics have gotten on both sides.




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